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THIS IS A DRAFT AND IS NOT TO BE QUOTED. Written in a polemical, confrontational tone, the authors present a strong argument against paid services for people with disabilities. In this lengthy document, the authors examine the threats to good care for people with disabilities provided by services.

The Specialist Child and Family Services Program (SCAFS) was set up in Victoria to improve the co-ordination of services for children with disabilities and their families. This book contains the range of papers presented at a SCAFS conference, held to take stock of progress.

The agency, Options in Community Living is a "supported living" agency. Their book includes stories by staff which show the human side of supporting people in the community - the joys, the frustrations, the victories, the dilemmas.

A description of the work of Macomb-Oakland Regional Centre which, instead of acting as a residential institution for people with developmental disabilities as it was set up to do, became a model for community based alternatives to institutional care.

A brief story but providing an important description of how the parents of two young women with disabilities set up a support group which worked towards securing accommodation for them on Waiheke Island in New Zealand.

This very brief paper contains a checklist to be used to see if your school is doing everything it can to include a student with disabilities as a full member of the school community. Keyword: Education

This paper contains a series of letters written in response to the Alberta Teachers Association document called "Trying to Teach" which raises problems in inclusive schooling. Keywords: Education, School age